Mortality due to traumatic brain injury, medical-legal aspects
Introduction: traumatic brain injury shows a high prevalence, represents a public health problem and causes a significant number of violent deaths. Objective: to characterize the mortality of patients due to traumatic brain injury in the Department of Legal Medicine of Villa Clara. Methods: a descri...
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| author | Yunier Riverol González Clarivel Rodríguez García Yaima González Cabrera Dayamí Llanes Pulido |
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| description | Introduction: traumatic brain injury shows a high prevalence, represents a public health problem and causes a significant number of violent deaths.
Objective: to characterize the mortality of patients due to traumatic brain injury in the Department of Legal Medicine of Villa Clara.
Methods: a descriptive, transversal, developmental research was carried out in the Department of Legal Medicine of the “Arnaldo Milián Castro” Clinical Surgical University Hospital of Villa Clara in the period from January 2021 to December 2022. Historical methods were used. and inductive deductive, documentary analysis of medical records, autopsy records, observation and statistics.
Results: young ages are the most affected, the male sex predominated, the most frequent etiology is accidental linked to traffic events, the predominant injuries are linear fracture (83.3%) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (66.3%). 7%), moderate head trauma is the most representative (52.1%) and as direct causes of death there was a predominance of cerebral edema (71.9%) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (12.5%).
Conclusions: young ages and the male sex are the most vulnerable. The accidental medico-legal etiology related to traffic accidents is the most representative. The most common injury is the linear fracture. Moderate head trauma predominated. The most prevalent direct cause of death is cerebral edema. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a1a850fc02e7436494666e4fd48391ee2025-02-05T02:09:39ZspaEditorial Ciencias MédicasActa Médica del Centro2709-79272024-05-01182e1899e18991244Mortality due to traumatic brain injury, medical-legal aspectsYunier Riverol González0Clarivel Rodríguez García1Yaima González Cabrera2Dayamí Llanes Pulido3Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Universitario “Arnaldo Milián Castro”Introduction: traumatic brain injury shows a high prevalence, represents a public health problem and causes a significant number of violent deaths. Objective: to characterize the mortality of patients due to traumatic brain injury in the Department of Legal Medicine of Villa Clara. Methods: a descriptive, transversal, developmental research was carried out in the Department of Legal Medicine of the “Arnaldo Milián Castro” Clinical Surgical University Hospital of Villa Clara in the period from January 2021 to December 2022. Historical methods were used. and inductive deductive, documentary analysis of medical records, autopsy records, observation and statistics. Results: young ages are the most affected, the male sex predominated, the most frequent etiology is accidental linked to traffic events, the predominant injuries are linear fracture (83.3%) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (66.3%). 7%), moderate head trauma is the most representative (52.1%) and as direct causes of death there was a predominance of cerebral edema (71.9%) and subarachnoid hemorrhage (12.5%). Conclusions: young ages and the male sex are the most vulnerable. The accidental medico-legal etiology related to traffic accidents is the most representative. The most common injury is the linear fracture. Moderate head trauma predominated. The most prevalent direct cause of death is cerebral edema.https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/1899traumatismo craneoencefálicomuerte violenta |
| spellingShingle | Yunier Riverol González Clarivel Rodríguez García Yaima González Cabrera Dayamí Llanes Pulido Mortality due to traumatic brain injury, medical-legal aspects Acta Médica del Centro traumatismo craneoencefálico muerte violenta |
| title | Mortality due to traumatic brain injury, medical-legal aspects |
| title_full | Mortality due to traumatic brain injury, medical-legal aspects |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Mortality due to traumatic brain injury, medical-legal aspects |
| title_short | Mortality due to traumatic brain injury, medical-legal aspects |
| title_sort | mortality due to traumatic brain injury medical legal aspects |
| topic | traumatismo craneoencefálico muerte violenta |
| url | https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/1899 |
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